It's no secret that Democrats consider John Boehner an ineffective speaker of the House. He is unable to control his restive brood, as evidenced most recently by last week's surprise implosion of the Farm Bill on the House floor. On budget issues, Boehner has been hamstrung in his negotiations with the White House by members with Tea Party leanings. And he has all but acknowledged being forced to waste precious legislative time catering to social conservatives who want to cast symbolic votes on everything from abortion to Obamacare.

If Boehner were a woman, his predecessor Nancy Pelosi has said, he would be considered the weakest speaker in history.

So as the two political parties gear up for the 2014 midterms, it would seem natural in todays polarized environment that Democrats are eager to make Boehner a household word -- and not in a good way. But interviews with several liberal strategists suggest that Democrats arent planning to demonize Boehner -- or even to campaign against him at all.

Republicans spent millions of dollars doing just that with Pelosi through virtually every medium at their disposal in the 2010 elections. Midterms typically serve as a referendum on the president, but that one was also a check on then-Speaker Pelosi, a top Obama cheerleader who shepherded his signature achievement, health care reform, through the House. For Republicans, she was a symbol of what was wrong in Washington. She proved to be a liability for some of her members in congressional races, and voters gave the GOP control of the House.

But for several reasons, Boehner wont be same sort of albatross for Republicans. And Democrats dont want him to be.

Democrats would love for Boehner to remain as Speaker. He puts committee chairmen in place who thwart conservative legislation, he passes Obama's agenda items with the help of democrats, and he only fights back with droning, boring statemens or "tersely worded letters."

The problem is that the rank and file congressman in DC seems to take orders from the party higher ups and ignores what his constituents really want. Unless they really screw up, most voters say "well he's a pretty good guy" and keep re-electing them, so the cycle continues. We need to start demanding that our "representatives" do more representing of OUR views, starting with getting rid of Boehner!

This is why I believe there’s no concerted effort to get to the bottom of the IRS criminal activities in concert with the White House. Boehner, McConnell and the establishment Republicans want the Tea Party to go away. The Democraps and their media water carriers have succeeded in killing the story (does Fox News even cover it anymore?). The IRS unions saw the goal of the Tea Party to get rid of it as a threat and were more than willing to jump in bed with Obama. Corruption everywhere. This is the story that should bring down a lot of the political class, and it gets no coverage. If the courts kill off the civil suits, the destruction of the Constitution is complete.

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posted on 06/24/2013 5:53:15 AM PDT
by OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)

“Bet he doesnt even get a Dem challenger on the ballot. This REALLY smells to high heaven.”

That’s to prevent conservatives from voting for whoever the hell would run against him to get him out of office. But with the democrats not actively working to remove him, he stays in power, in the congress, and in the speakership (because the rank and file are apparently afraid to put somebody against him)

it’s all a country club game for these people , you watch my back and we watch yours and we’ll just get the base wind up every now and again when it suits us .

Rove to most of the GOP to most of the Dems back slap and have bets with each other and then attack those who are not the country elitist club types like they did to Sarah, Col West Bachmann, O donnell, and now Cruz.

CHB, Caitlin Huey-Burns, of RCP, Real Clear Politics, seems to be casting a net with big holes as she goes fishing for prognostications on the 2014 House legislative calander season.

House Speaker Boehner who is the target for everyone conservative CHB feels won’t be for the demo-coms. Demo-Coms not “democrat”? You betcha! Ever since they decided to remove any reference to God at their 2012 convention they have moved far away from the democrat party of old and they should be refered to as such. Particularly since their hyphenated marriage to too many one world socialists known as communists running that party was “consumated” with that Godless action .

It might be too much to expect CHB who has a hyphenated name to point this out. Or to bring up the campaign of hyphenation brought by the hypehnated party. Like “Afro-American, Hispanic-American, Gay-American, ad infinitum. CHB doesn’t seem to believe hyphenation that will not be an issue during 2014 campaign season. As well it should be a center point in many campaigns for both the house and senate.

CHB does come up with a blanket assertion of conservatives wasting time and money on, paraphasing here, political grandstanding without citing examples . That’s too bad but it is both sides of the aisle doing this. More so by the Demo-Coms but use of these tactics should be exposed to the to LIVs low information voters as well as those MIV’s more informed voters.

Maybe CHB should go back to Ogeewe board. Let’s hope her predictions of Boehner of remaining where he’s at and a lack luster campaign for 2014 ,if run by the RINO and GOPES gop elite snobs will be , is wrong.

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